New Fast Food Restaurant Review Website

Discussion in 'Websites' started by jamesplato, Sep 26, 2006.

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    Check out this new site we are helping for free as a favour:

    http://www.adventuresinfastfood.com/

    What do you think can be done to increase people in leaving reviews about their favourite fast food restaurants? Owner is considering a contest, but not sure this will help. There are hundreds of hits coming in daily and people are rating the fast food restaurants, but not many write reviews. It's a new site, only 2 months old, so that might be the issue. The other might be a time issue--time to write a review. What do you think it would take for people to make a review?

    Your input is appreciated....

    If you wouldn't mind giving this website a digg or add to your deli.cio.us I think this might help.
     
    jamesplato, Sep 26, 2006 IP
  2. ludwig

    ludwig Notable Member

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    first of all I'd change the header and the whole design. Its more of a simple personal site than a restaurant site

    the directory is too hard to browse maybe you could have it regional or something like that

    also have an option to contact the restaurants

    the long lasting index of links it boring think of something new
     
    ludwig, Sep 27, 2006 IP
  3. Kirtan

    Kirtan Peon

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    Hi,
    Suggestion about look and feel.
    1. Looks too plain. Add some graphics
    2. give padding to main content or switch off border of table tag
    3. FAQ - you can make different color for Question and Answer
    4. Restaurant details are in black bg. which makes restaurant logo stand out differently with white bg.
    5. Everything else, submit site, etc are using dynamic script. But why not contact us? it is opening email client. which is not good not everyone uses email client.

    About improve reviews.
    You can give coupons (ofcourse restaurant owners have to accept to give) to visitors who review their favourite restaurant.

    Best of Luck
     
    Kirtan, Sep 27, 2006 IP
  4. jamesplato

    jamesplato Active Member

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    thanks for the ideas. the owner is a little reluctant to change the whole design with the traffic he is getting now--but seeing that others agree with me might work. He knows the alpha index itself needs somes change. The page has the most traffic fromt he SE's. We are thinking about adding different surveys to add some depth to the pages like best french fries etc...

    right now the main concern is getting more resto reviews. coupons right now is not an option until more people start leaving commnets. Like I mentioned traffic is not the issue. People leaving comments is. i guess its a brand issue. rateitall and chowhound are well known, adventures in fast food is the new kid on the belock and has some work to do.
     
    jamesplato, Sep 27, 2006 IP